Who else would like to see the next Halo title return to its gritty roots? While I doubt it will ever get to Doom levels of gore, the return of blood would be nice.
A hiigher age rating or more gore doesn’t make for a grittier game. Neither do I think Halo used to be more gritty than it is now (if anything, I’d lean towards the opposite), and in any case, a grittier game is not particularly what I want.
I really can’t think of a reason why I would care at all about what age rating an agency on a continent I don’t live on decides to give to the game. It really has no impact on my life other than how much I hear people complain about such a meaningless thing.
I do not care at all either way. Halo 5 is fine without it.
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> I really can’t think of a reason why I would care at all about what age rating an agency on a continent I don’t live on decides to give to the game. It really has no impact on my life other than how much I hear people complain about such a meaningless thing.
It’s the difference between:
-characters swearing
-blood feedback when shot
-the flood
-sexualized cortana
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-halo 5
Also the ESRB could really be doing better at age restricting games/informing customers of manipulative practices games. Soo Halo Infinite could be rated E for everyone at this rate or 65+ lol.
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> -halo 5
I don’t particularly care for any of those things. Also, “sexualized Cortana” has never been an influence on the ESRB ratings. None of the games apart from Halo 2 Vista have any of the descriptors related to sexual content (i.e. Nudity, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Sexual Themes, or Sexual Violence) and Halo 2 Vista has “Partial Nudity” solely because of the .-Yoink!- error message. Neither does the rating summary for Halo 4 (the only game with Cortana since ESRB started giving rating summaries, apparently) mention anything about the depiction of Cortana.
It also seems like ESRB disagrees with you on blood feedback. From the Halo 5 rating summary: “Battles are highlighted by realistic gunfire, explosions, and occasional blood-splatter effects.” Same goes for characters swearing: “The word “a*s” appears in the dialogue,” which gives Halo 5 the same Mild Language descriptor that Halo 3 has.
The only one of these things that actually seems of any relevance for ratings is the Flood, which consistently gave games of the original trilogy the Blood and Gore descriptor.
The rating, in any case, doesn’t determine any of these things. The contents of the game determines the rating. if people want these things, they should be asking for them explicitly, and not bring up the rating which is entirely inconsequential to the discussion. If you’re above the age rating, and are not planning on buying the game to a child, then there should be reason for you to care about the age ratings.
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> A hiigher age rating or more gore doesn’t make for a grittier game. Neither do I think Halo used to be more gritty than it is now (if anything, I’d lean towards the opposite), and in any case, a grittier game is not particularly what I want.
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> I really can’t think of a reason why I would care at all about what age rating an agency on a continent I don’t live on decides to give to the game. It really has no impact on my life other than how much I hear people complain about such a meaningless thing.
I agree with most but not all you wrote. It may seem like a meaningless thing to you, but it’s not meaningless to everyone. I’ll admit the age rating won’t sell the game, the quility of the game will do that, or not. However I prefer a bloodier and gorier game with some f bombs here and there if they’re applicable, I prefer the amounts we had in Halo CE to Reach over Halo 5, and it’s that level of blood and gore I would like Halo Infinite to return to. If I’m being totally honest and I had my way, Halo would have Doom levels of blood and gore, but I’ll settle for somewhere between CE and Reach.
I was originally in the M-rating camp, but when I think about it, the rating is pretty low on the list of priorities for a lot of people. My parents bought me CE when I was a kid and didn’t seem to care about the rating at all (they assumed it was just alien blood). So I guess I would prefer for the game to have the necessary levels of gore and swearing that come with an M-rating, but it’s not a deal breaker if Infinite gets a T-rating. If 343 is focusing on what rating they can get, then they are going in the wrong direction. I would like to think they are focusing on more important things, which they certainly seem to be so far.
Halo didn’t change, the rating system did. Halo has always been a mild game. No explicit language, (Johnson gets censored by an explosion in CE’s legendary ending), and the gore at best was an undefined green mass from the Flood which isn’t anything to write home about. Besides, on the PEGI system, Halo has been rated at 16 from the beginning all the way to now.
I would love to see some more blood and gore in Halo.
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> Same goes for characters swearing: “The word “a*s” appears in the dialogue,” which gives Halo 5 the same Mild Language descriptor that Halo 3 has.
Not to mention, the ESRB doesn’t even count everything. (I believe they are sent the most mature parts of a game and rate based on that, which could result in a few minor things unintentionally slipping by.) Halo Reach and Halo 4 have what would be considered mild language and the rating summaries for both games don’t acknowledge that.
Feel free to use the existing topic on this, thanks
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/29568daf8cd14083bd1b70a810bf3581/topics/halo-infinite-m-rated/deb28e40-3c71-4dff-be2d-1f848cb3596c/posts